US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for enrolling multi-contact security sensors" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,042, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and apparatus for enrolling multi-contact security sensors" was invented by Brandon Gruber (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved multi-contact security sensor is described. The improved multi-contact security sensor transmits information indicating a number of sensors associated with the multi-contact security sensor. Each sensor is represented by a status bit in an enrollment message transmitted by the multi-contact security sensor."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/423,458.

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